Does fasting burn muscle?

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Involuntary periodic starvation or its voluntary counterpart, fasting, have been part of human nature since the beginning of time. Until relatively recently, food was not always available. To survive, early humans needed to store food energy as body fat to survive the hard times. If we did not have an efficient storage and retrieval method of food energy, we would have died long ago. After food availability became more reliable, most human cultures and religions specified prescribed voluntary periods of fasting. For example, Jesus was said to have fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, and many subsequent followers have undertaken this themselves without significant health damage. Many Muslims fast during the holy month of Ramadan, and also regularly twice a week during the rest of the year. Fasting was considered a cleansing procedure without any connotation of harmful muscle burning. The repeated feeding-fasting cycles did not seem to have any detrimental effect on muscle mass....
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